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Comment by Vlad

They sorted it out and introduced new pets for taming so no problems taming it either, was some talk that it would be untameable but lucky us, no inconveniences. :)

I have a feeling his "tameable" status may be revoked at live release, tough we may always hope and at least it seems like Ainamiss the Super-Exotic will be an alternative, unless her status is revoked as well! Anyway, nothing is certain before the game is released.

Comment by onenation777

As a level 85 hunter, my experience on the beta test realm is that the respawn rate on this bad boy is quite long. I camped the area for a long time and was finally able to tame him on 09/25/2010 @ 10:25 PM, and that was only after several days of hunting for him. To tame him I utilized my freezing trap, hit tame beast and approximately 10 seconds later, "Sil" was mine. Let it be known that the respawn rate on Ainamiss the Hive Queen is a lot faster than Harakiss the Infestor is, or at least seems to be about every 6 hours. I was able to tame her and stayed in the area to tame Harakiss and about 6 hours after my taming her on 09/21/2010 @ 2:55 PM , she spawned in front of me again. I will edit this post as soon as the live realms come online to see if either of the giant silithids are tamable as of patch 4.0.

Comment by onenation777

Nope, Ainamiss and Harakiss have not been deployed on the live realms as of the 4.0 patch so they are definitely NOT tamable and won't be until the Cataclysm expansion or shortly before that is released :(

Comment by Levintry

As of 11/23/2010 at 8:25PM CST, I can confirm that Harakiss is indeed tameable. I found him near the southeast corner of the Gaping Chasm in Tanaris.

Comment by Raznugeul

Found him almost dead center of the Gaping Chasm in Tanaris. Can't provide good coordinates but its right above the letter A in Gaping on the map. Doesn't make sounds and randomly makes the death "thud" sound during a Nexus run but beyond that, I enjoy him as a pet. Going to post an image of the tamed version (must smaller).

Comment by Chillstream

Just tammed him at the Gaping Chasam, above ground, around the hole to go under. Very nice pet.

Comment by Atarcus

Tamed him at location 56.26, 69.09, on the back outside edge of the Gaping Chasm so make sure you go all around the Chasm!

edit: just got Ainamiss too lol

Comment by friedlish

I tamed this pretty bug at 8:20 (server time) today on the EU Server Aszune. It appeared right in front of me just a few paces away from where I was standing, at approximately 50, 72. Almost smack in the middle of the Gaping Chasm.Absolutely charming silithid. I love her to death. She does not appear to be heavily camped, though perhaps I just got lucky.

Comment by Lokomachine

After taming a boss silithid of my own on patch day I've came out to tanaris to check up on these two rares every day (out of curiosity) and each time I check they're both up.

Either the spawn time was significantly lowered or they aren't being camped at all...either way, should be an easy tame for anyone who wants them.

Comment by Caoranach

He is tamable as of Patch 4.0.3a.

Comment by rustafur

That's a big negative Ghost Rider. I'm standing in front of him right now (4.0.3a), and it's telling me "Creature is not tamable."

If you got him before this, congrats.

Comment by Aiyannah

so what is he respawn time? because I've been waiting in Gaping Chasm with NPC Scan on (Cached all cleared) for 8 hours now... I didn't even bother running back and forth to Ainamiss the Hive Queen's spawn points just so I could get my blue bug, but no luck.

I've made an observation that when I was flying in Sholazar Basin and Icecrown, my npc scan would go off to mobs way far on the other side of the area. So if that happens then clearly if at any time he spawns in Tanaris, regardless if I wasn't in the exact spot that he spawned, my npc should go off. And since it hasn't then I would assume he has not spawned yet. And if he has then something is wrong with my npc scan or that situation that happened for rares in Northrend is quite different for rares in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms.

Comment by rahxephon52

51, 72.6 is where I found this prostar. 6:27 AM Mannoroth

Comment by Aiyannah

but yeah I tamed him right below the 'H' in "Gaping Chasm" if someone who like me prefers to sit and camp out in a particular spot

Comment by Urpayne

Found on my second trip to Tanaris directly below the 'H' in 'Chasm'. Has a nice little fort buff and web.

Comment by Juric

Some Boss Silithid this guy is... doesn't even show up to work. >.>

Comment by Luv4jazz

Just tamed at 1:20am Zuljin at 50.3, 70.6.....really Cool Pet! _NPCScan did not go off until I moused ovr him...

Comment by Devs

just tamed 6:40am Nazgrel 52.9,70.9 im guessing his spawned 5hour or less not sure started from 10pm

Comment by Gorgimer

For those posting about _NPCScan not going off you should realized that not every rare comes with the addon download and you will need to find the npc ID and manually add it to _NPCScan yourself if you want notifications. Go with Silverdragon if you want an addon that finds Pre-BC rares as it comes with all the rares. As I travel around Azeroth working on my Archeology my Silverdragon is going off left and right finding low level rares, while _npcscan will not.

Comment by KoguPriest

Is he not tameable any longer? I just tried and I got the "this creature is not tameable" message.

Comment by surreal78

Found him between the N & G of "Gaping" on the map at 5:03pm server time today -- didn't trigger NPCScan for some reason, though he has a rare portrait border.

Comment by athear

I found him today at 12:45pm server time on Boulderfist at 50.4, 72.0. Just before taming him I found Ainamiss and found her at 32.9, 49.4

Comment by Oceanaia

Found him tonight @ 12:21am server on Nordrassil directly below the 'H' in 'Chasm'. I actually found Haarka the Ravenous right before I found him so they share timers it appears. Really pretty Blue color, so cute :D

Comment by wodaji

Sadly, the pet no longer stays its original size. Its shrinks just like all the other pets now. :0(

Comment by Blunttman

Ugh I just saw him was looking forward to taming, ran up tried to tame, cannot tame this, so I was like meh.

Then proceded to kill and realised my pet was still up -_-

I'm only 47 and not BM so you might need the talent in BM I'm not sure, can anyone comment?

Comment by BrokenHip

ye you need BM to tame silithids.

Comment by Ambers92

Tamed Pinky and him about 2 minutes apart. Both of them are huge and hard to miss. They patrol up top, NOT IN THE TUNNELS.Tamed Pinky at 8:09 PM&Tamed Ole' Blue at 8:11 PM!<3

Comment by Tehcutlery

Made the mistake of forgetting to dismiss my pet before trying to tame this awesome looking silithid (just before 9am server (Garrosh US)) and watched in agony as my pet proceeded to one shot it.

Camped the chasm and spotted it again about 4 hours later, just past 1pm server. Has the same skin as Princess Yauj from AQ40, and (unlike Yauj) a simple tame if you don't mind potentially camping for it.

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Comment by lightyear299

I just tried to tame this guy as a Beast Master level 51 hunter. I was told he was not tameable. Not sure why. So, I just killed him and got a green drop.

Comment by bruenir

I found Harakiss right after finding Ainamiss and Haarka all up at the same time. I think Harakiss is the better between Ainamiss and Harakiss, but whatever way you put it, they're cool. Harakiss (now called Syl) occupies the slot that green Madexx did now. And it was worth it! Lothar-US server, around 7:55PM EST.FWIW, it was the second time in a week I'd seen Ainamiss too. Whatever demand is out there is small on Lothar. Good luck!

Comment by Malinke

tamed both today within about ten mins of each other using silver dragon, which actually sent an alert to me while i was in Uldum, luckily by the time i had logged to hunter and got to Tanaris they were both still there! Yeew

Comment by Pops715

AGH! Harakiss finally spawned but when I went to tame, I realized I had not dismissed Haarka, whom I had tamed earlier. Found myself staring in disbelief at Harakiss' dead body....NOOOO! And then to make matters worse, I accidently abandoned Harrka instead of just dismissing it.

UPDATE: Very next day I was able to tame Haarka AND Harakiss back to back. They both spawned within 10 minutes of each other about six hours after the server restart.

Comment by Tziva

Flew over the zone on the off change he was there, and there he was towards the bottom of the area. NPCscan did not go off (you have to manually enter the ID for old world rares).

Unfortunately, I had forgotten to dismiss my pet and the pet one shot him when I went to tame him. So sad!

Comment by Magnakilro

For those that like this color, and like the 'exposed brain' colossus silithids, Patch 5.1 will add Manax, a rare exposed brain version of this silithid

Comment by Mossmallows

Comment by sonissara

I found him on my level 86 Hunter in Tanaris, my NPC scan went off. Not sure of corrdinates, but i couldnt tame him. You have to bea Beast Mastery and at least level 69 to tame!

Comment by Apheus

Just tamed this beaut on Moonrunner, 1:27pm at coords 56.5,68.9. That's just under the second 'G' in The Gaping Chasm on the map.

Happy hunting!

Comment by Sioranth

After three days of intermittent checking in the mornings and evenings (and spending my time playing WoW Pokemon in between fly-overs), I finally caught it at 9:25 EST on a Sunday on Wyrmrest Accord.

Comment by Fabulosia

Saw Harakiss's corpse at 56,68 about 11pm server time, Caelestrasz, Oceanic Servers.Came back approximatelty every half hour and at 2.36 am server time, he had respawned at 52,70.Approximately 3 and a half hours respawn time.

Comment by kendallzemp

My NPC scan went off and alerted me to this silithid, so I logged out and logged in as my level 68 Beast Mastery spec hunter to come tame it. I have tamed a number of other beasts. I had only 2 pets with me (unstabled), and all were dismissed. After traveling all the way from Outland to get it, it said "This beast is not tameable". I looked it up and found that this is an exotic pet which requires Beast Mastery AND level 69, but the message does not say that.

Comment by LoveHunters

Because I found him on petopia, I came straight here to wowhead only to see where he was on the map, without going thru the comments or looking at the screenshots, which clearly show he is above ground! I spent a little time (not much) searching for him in the tunnels, only to find him walking around above ground (duh).

Don't make the mistake I made going into the tunnels..... You will find Harakiss ABOVE GROUND!

Good luck Hunters! :-)

P.S. He's so cool looking and is quite large next to me compared to other pets. Love it!

Comment by LiriellGarrosh

For some reason, my tamed Harakiss will often make a thudding noise and occasionally perform at least part of the animation of falling over dead. This has happened while in combat, running around next to me, and while idle. I checked the sounds page here, listened to them all, but could not find the thud.